Coroner releases name of woman killed on Clemson Boulevard while walking her dog

A woman and her dog were struck and killed on Clemson Boulevard Friday morning.

Ashley Sexton Nichols, 31, was struck and killed as she was walking her dog, said Anderson County Deputy Coroner Don McCown. He said she was walking her dog with her boyfriend in the rain and witnesses said it appeared she misjudged where she was stepping when she was struck.

South Carolina Highway Patrol are investigating the wreck, which happened around 7 a.m. Friday at the intersection with George Smith Mill Road, according to the state patrol's online wreck tracker.

The woman was walking across Clemson Boulevard when she was struck by a 2016 sedan driven by a 33-year-old Greenville woman, who was not charged, said Trooper Joe Hovis of the South Carolina Highway Patrol.